Charles Fox lived in Toowoomba after the war where he played for the Returned Soldiers’ soccer club. He later captained the club in 1921 when they were briefly known as Casuals.
Fox had been born in Ipswich, England, but before his enlistment had been living in Lismore, New South Wales where he worked as a farm labourer. A soccer competition briefly existed in the Lismore region in the months leading up to the declaration of the war, but his name was not listed in the scant playing rosters published by the local newspapers.
He enlisted in September 1915 and a month later was assigned the rank of Gunner. Fox left Australia for England in May 1916, and then onto France in November. He was initially allocated to the 3rd Australian Divisional Ammunition Column, before transferring to the 8th Field Artillery Brigade in 1917.
Fox received a gunshot wound to the right arm and axilla nerve in October 1917 which was severe enough to be invalided back to England and end his war.
He started back for Australia in February 1918, and later that year moved to Toowoomba. He soon joined the Returned Soldiers’ soccer club, which would later be known as Diggers. Fox played as Diggers won the 1923 Charity Cup against Caledonians, though they lost the final a year later against Waratahs. Fox’s form saw him chosen for the Toowoomba representative side against the touring English FA team in 1925.
In 1921 he married Florence Ivy Lowry, known as Ivy, and they would have two daughters. He worked for Gobbett and Booth department store as a delivery cart driver. Fox was still playing for Diggers when he died at the age of 33 in August 1927. The Toowoomba Chronicle of 6 September 1927 suggests his long-term Diggers teammates J. Stevenson and W. Kennedy were among the pallbearers. Ivy died less than a year later in June 1928, also at the age of 33.